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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:39:25 +0200
From:      Paul Schenkeveld <fb-questions@psconsult.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Looking for PCI/PCIe AHCI controller
Message-ID:  <20100725153925.GA69210@psconsult.nl>

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Hi,

My fileserver has grown beyond the 6 SATA drives supported by my
Intel DP35DP mainboard.  When I add a SATA port multiplier I see
a dramatic decrease in throughput compared to directly connected
SATA disks (not a big surprise, although the combined throughput
is way below 3 Gbit/s).

So now I am looking for an add-in SATA card that is supported by
the FreeBSD ahci(4) driver.  I don't need HW RAID support on the
card as I'm running ZFS.  I have PCI and PCIe (x1) slots free.

I tried a Promise TX4 but that one appears as an ata(4) card and
not as an ahci(4) card.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Paul Schenkeveld



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